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Re:OCaml Compiler Hacking: how to add a primitive by vegabook on Thursday August 06, 2015 @03:22PM (#10018736)
Yes it seems to attract a high-end CS crowd - there's lots of graduate-level CS assumption going on in some of the tutorials. But one of the things I really appreciate is the REPL ("toplevel") which let's you hack around and mess with examples in an interactive way. So good for a compiled language.
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Re:OCaml Compiler Hacking: how to add a primitive by klibertp on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:33PM (#10019240)
Much better in this regard than Haskell, though. Being impure and eager makes the most die-hard academics go for Haskell instead.
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